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economy fight these changes, hopefully in the defense bill this year. i appreciate you mentioning your statement that foer to recommend you to do everything we can to focus assist on the act that occurred in the fact surrounding the act and take the focus off of the guns and what she did or didn't do or what he did or did do get us into this century is released to the crime is being handled. it will surprise you ought to talk about contracting. i notice trends come put out a solicitation for arafat, medevac, air lift in africa. so my question to you is, was there analysis done as to why our current capability i met back medevac and all the different commands. you all just canceled the air force, canceled to see 27 jay if are going to -- you are looking forward to 12 as the only aircraft no qualify under the solicitation. that is the aircraft now use. i am not against logistical support, but i need to know the analysis to why we can't do this and why this is cheaper. >> i don't know. >> i know that our list is stretched. it is a stretched resource and in
economy fight these changes, hopefully in the defense bill this year. i appreciate you mentioning your statement that foer to recommend you to do everything we can to focus assist on the act that occurred in the fact surrounding the act and take the focus off of the guns and what she did or didn't do or what he did or did do get us into this century is released to the crime is being handled. it will surprise you ought to talk about contracting. i notice trends come put out a solicitation for...
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based companies be able to compete and find high-skilled workers to grow the economy? will american workers truly come first? will we incentivize people to come here and overstaying their visas? these are questions i have. put in regard to border security, security is what is the basis of the sovereignty of any nation. we have independent authority over our -- we must have independent authority over our borders. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you very much. we'll hear first from our arturo rodriguez. served as the president of the united farmworkers since 1993. he spent much of his life working to establish fair working conditions for work north america the western united states. no stranger to this committee, and of course, senator feinstein has worked hard on the agricultural matters has met and talked to you a great deal, and please, mr. rodriguez, go ahead. >> mr. chairman, i ask the senator cornyn we given five minutes bass he wasn't here friday and he is the ranking republican on the subcommittee. >> could i ask it be taken -- secretary napolitano was schedule
based companies be able to compete and find high-skilled workers to grow the economy? will american workers truly come first? will we incentivize people to come here and overstaying their visas? these are questions i have. put in regard to border security, security is what is the basis of the sovereignty of any nation. we have independent authority over our -- we must have independent authority over our borders. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you very much. we'll hear first from our...
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it's not a command economy. there are limits how inexe tent people get and still expect to be in the club which is why there's interim pressure, everybody's got to be good so we do business inside the club and remain profitable and so forth, but that's just one of the more polite examples of what sometimes called crony capitalism, a terrible term, but i use it because people understand it. sometimes crony capitalisms in malaysia and indonesia is rich, greedy, incompetent people scratching each other's back. in the civilized polite countries, the masters germany and japan and the countries that follow after them like korea ataiwan, there's different arrangements, but the pattern is you have a clubby, corporate establishment, and the government understands the game. the government wants to favor domestic producers, understand that they got to be competent to do that pushing people hard, but there is app assumption of insiders and outsiders, and that assumption is just so in the system that nobody really has to tal
it's not a command economy. there are limits how inexe tent people get and still expect to be in the club which is why there's interim pressure, everybody's got to be good so we do business inside the club and remain profitable and so forth, but that's just one of the more polite examples of what sometimes called crony capitalism, a terrible term, but i use it because people understand it. sometimes crony capitalisms in malaysia and indonesia is rich, greedy, incompetent people scratching each...
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it's a huge component of our economy. the number is about a billion dollars. i don't have an opinion at this point about whether the finding is right or not. tell me about the analysis done to arrive at that conclusion. do you have the methodology of the decision available? if so, what would you share the process later in my office. >> the issue of interact out of london that we address in a very general way with political analysis that leads to a legal conclusion about any particular instance. you go around the country and the senate lenders and borrowers get the legal point being made, which is straightforward that if you are a lender and set up a lending program and that evolves third parties make decisions in the program, but you are the one monday in the money coming to remain responsible for complying with the federal law. if you set up a lending program as a bank lender of mortgages so some are made directly by employees or brokers or others, you remain responsible for your program and you have to comply with the law. we were hearing from some folks who
it's a huge component of our economy. the number is about a billion dollars. i don't have an opinion at this point about whether the finding is right or not. tell me about the analysis done to arrive at that conclusion. do you have the methodology of the decision available? if so, what would you share the process later in my office. >> the issue of interact out of london that we address in a very general way with political analysis that leads to a legal conclusion about any particular...
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since 2009 there's been a 17% decline in veterans homelessness despite the tough economy. that's good news. the bad news there was still more than 62,000 homeless veterans in january of 2012. the va must sustain the positive efforts in combating veteran homelessness, progress is being made. more must be done. for the world through the world class research program, the va is making significant advances in health care, not only for veterans but the entire country. that progress must continue. the vso while praising the va in many areas also highlighted the significant challenges and problems that continue to confront veterans of all generations. and i agree with many of their concerns. among many other issues they spoke of, the obligation to address the tragic number of servicemember and veteran suicides. this is a horrible tragedy. it's a tough issue. we have to address it. further the need to accelerate the transformation of the compensation claim system in order to dale with the unacceptable long delays we are seeing and the huge backlog in cases of any issue veterans and
since 2009 there's been a 17% decline in veterans homelessness despite the tough economy. that's good news. the bad news there was still more than 62,000 homeless veterans in january of 2012. the va must sustain the positive efforts in combating veteran homelessness, progress is being made. more must be done. for the world through the world class research program, the va is making significant advances in health care, not only for veterans but the entire country. that progress must continue. the...
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under employment in the economy. we need to focus on that right now rather than pursuing european-style awe tearty in the budget as republican colleagues budget does. you also had a visit to china, i think your visit, mr. mr. speaker to china. i mentioned in the hearing we we had a major biotech company in our district last year laid off more than 1,000 people because of, quote, uncertain budget environment here at home with respect to investment and science and research. this year because of the sequester, they have a hiring freeze in place. the one place they point out they are hiring, is in china. it says we have substitute -- institute a hiring freeze with china being the only exception. they point out not because of lower wages paid in china. because the chinese are copying what has historically been a successful u.s. model of investing in science and research. and it would be very short sighted if we pursue the austerity approach cut the investment in at time when many major international competitor are followi
under employment in the economy. we need to focus on that right now rather than pursuing european-style awe tearty in the budget as republican colleagues budget does. you also had a visit to china, i think your visit, mr. mr. speaker to china. i mentioned in the hearing we we had a major biotech company in our district last year laid off more than 1,000 people because of, quote, uncertain budget environment here at home with respect to investment and science and research. this year because of...
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>> it is having a huge impact on our economy. no question with any measure you use inflation, unemployment, and availability of commodities having a tremendous impact by any measure that said it just yet has not induced changes in
>> it is having a huge impact on our economy. no question with any measure you use inflation, unemployment, and availability of commodities having a tremendous impact by any measure that said it just yet has not induced changes in